City rules say that security or 'dusk-to-dawn' lights like this one must now be shielded to reduce glare onto neighboring properties. A compliant light is shown below.

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When City Council passed an ordinance in November 2008 to reduce glare from outdoor security lights, it gave light owners five years to comply.

Now, Duke Energy, owner of the vast majority of the lights, says it needs more time because it has done little or nothing to replace or modify its lights to meet the terms of the ordinance.

The 2008 rules were structured so Progress Energy, which has since become part of Duke, could remove lights that do not meet ordinance standards and replace them with ones that do whenever the lights had to be replaced or customers' leases of the lights expired. ...